Infant Mental Health Competency Guidelines

To best serve infants, young children, and families, we must support all professionals who work with them to incorporate core principles of social and emotional health and well-being into their practice.

Building a competent workforce

The Competency Guidelines identify knowledge, skills, and reflective practice approaches that support the development of competency in infant and early childhood mental health across disciplines and in multiple service settings.

Together with RIAIMH’s RI-IMH-Endorsement® process, the Competency Guidelines can help fuel high-quality, systematic workforce development opportunities across Rhode Island’s early childhood system and lead to a more engaged, competent, and committed infant-family workforce.

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Review the Competency Guidelines. Please note:The materials supporting RI-IMH-Endorsement® are copyrighted by the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health (MI-AIMH). RIAIMH is able to make these materials available to our membership and collaborators through a licensing agreement with MI-AIMH. Copyright law allows individuals to print out or make ONE copy of copyrighted material for personal, non-commercial purposes only. Only one download is allowed per user.